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1994 by John A. Lynn Printed in the United States of America. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents Illustrations Note on Codes and Call Numbers Acknowledgments PART ONE — Introductory Materials Introduction Reference Works Special Collections of Documents and Ordonnances PART TWO — Military Treatises Sixteenth-Century Military Treatises, 1449-1598 Seventeenth-Century Military Treatises, 1599 to 1699 Eighteenth-Century Military Treatises, 1700 to 1789 Treatises on Military Medicine Treatises on Military Law and Collections of Military Laws Periodicals as Sources of Military History PART THREE — Sixteenth-Century Wars, 1489-1598 The Italian Wars, 1489-1559 Wars of Religion, 1562-1598 Sixteenth-Century Military Miscellany PART FOUR — Seventeenth-Century Wars, 1598-1700 Wars, 1598-1618 The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648/59 The English Civil Wars, 1642-1660 The Dutch War, 1672-1678/9 The Nine Years’ War, 1688-1697 Seventeenth-Century Military Miscellany PART FIVE — Eighteenth-Century Wars, 1700-1789 The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 The Seven Years’ War, 1756-1763 Eighteenth-Century Military Miscellany Index Illustrations Title page adapted from the title page of Johan Jacobi von Wallhausen, L’art militaire pour l’infanterie (Leeuwarden, 1630). Part One title page adapted from the title page of Bernardino de Mendoza, Theorica & practica militaris (Frankfort, 1617). Part Two title page adapted from the title page of Jacob de Gheyn, Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, mousquetz et piques (Amsterdam, 1608). Part Three title page adapted from the title page of a German edition of Vegetius (Augsburg, 1529). Part Four title page adapted from the title page of Giorgio Basta, Le maistre du camp général (Frankfort, 1617). Part Five title page adapted from the title page of M. Bouchotte, Les règles du dessein et du lavis, pour les plans ... de l’architecture militaire (Paris, 1721). Reproductions of the original plates appear in Spaulding and Karpinski, Early Military Books in the University of Michigan Libraries (Ann Arbor, 1941), which was used as the source for the above illustrations. Note on Codes and Call Number Throughout this Guide, libraries are identified by their National Union Catalog codes. The collections cited in this edition of the Guide include the following: IC Chicago Public Library, Chicago ICarbS Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ICJ John Crerar Library, Chicago ICN Newberry Library, Chicago ICRL Center for Research Libraries, Chicago ICU University of Chicago, Chicago IEdS Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville IEG Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston IEN Northwestern University, Evanston IMunS Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein INS Illinois State University, Normal IU University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign InNd University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame InU Indiana University, Bloomington IaAS Iowa State University, Ames IaU University of Iowa, Iowa City MiD Detroit Public Library, Detroit MiDB Detroit Public Library, Burton Collection, Detroit MiDU University of Detroit, Detroit MiDW Wayne State University, Detroit MiEM Michigan State University, East Lansing MiU University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MiU-C University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor MnU University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MoU University of Missouri, Columbia OC Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati OCl Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland OClW Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OClWHi Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland OCU University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati ODW Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware OHi Ohio State Historical Society, Columbus OKentC Kent State University, Kent OO Oberlin College, Oberlin OOxM Miami University, Oxford OU The Ohio State University, Columbus WU University of Wisconsin, Madison In addition to the basic codes, other information is supplied for some volumes. “Lilly” indicates the Lilly Library at Indiana University. “RBC” signifies that the book is housed in the rare book collection of the particular library. It is assumed that modern editions are available at all larger libraries, so no effort has been made to trace them at all institutions. In most instances, only the University of Illinois citation for a given modern edition appears, which should be read as indicating general availability at peer institutions. For many volumes, actual call numbers have been supplied. Acknowledgments This Guide was made possible by grants from the Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The authors would like to express their thanks to personnel at the following libraries: the University of Illinois libraries, particularly the Rare Book and Special Collections Library; the Lilly Library at Indiana University; and the libraries of the Ohio State University. We must single out for special gratitude the people at that astounding institution, the Newberry Library in Chicago. In preparing this volume for publication, we drew shamelessly upon the facilities and staff of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois. Special thanks go to Merrily Shaw, Assistant to the Director. Lastly, we would like to thank Amy Zook and Clinton Grubbs for proofreading the copy and John Huhn for assisting in printing this volume. Introduction to the Second Edition This Guide was born in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Having traveled there to read seventeenth-century military literature, I began by assembling a list of essential works from Pohler’s invaluable bibliography. But to conserve my valuable time in Paris, I consulted the copy of the National Union Catalog kept at the B.N. to see which books I might find in Chicago or even in Champaign. I was surprised to see how much of my list was available in the Midwest. Then and there I resolved to make a systematic search for sources that I could use at home, without the expense of an international journey. The noted French historian Richard Cobb once relegated American scholars to a secondary role in European historical writing because they were hampered by only occasional and limited access to archival documents. This Guide is intended to improve that access by alerting midwestern scholars to the rich funds of original materials stored in their own back yard. Less an erudite exercise than a practical tool, the Guide does not pretend to list everything that has been published, but only those items that exist in the heartland. It will help to free midwestern historians from exclusive reliance upon infrequent and costly expeditions to the old country by allowing them to benefit from the kind of four or five day research forays that Europeans can make. In particular, I hope that it aids graduate students to do creative research with primary sources early in their student careers. It is sad to see energetic students with exciting ideas crash in seminar because they cannot locate sources to test their hypotheses. This second edition of the Guide represents considerable revision and addition. However, while it is twice as long as the original, this second effort must remain incomplete. George Satterfield and I based the first edition on searches of the card catalogs in four libraries. In order to expand the entries for the second edition, we took the first as our beginning, and used the list of authors and works there to search the National Union Catalog for further entries. Besides an increased number of entries, the other major difference between this volume and the Guide’s first version is the provision of an index, which should make the book far more useful. When the first edition appeared two years ago, we regarded it as a work in progress and promised a more expanded collection sometime down the road. This is it. However, the labor that went into this volume has been so great that we have no plans to offer a third edition in the future. Once again I must plead guilty that this volume speaks in a decidedly French accent, since both George and I specialize in French history. This is true both in its emphasis on French works and in its organization. However, we have done our best to include works in English, German, Spanish and other languages. In setting up the sections, we decided on a reasonable breakdown of works as either treatises, dealing with military topics in general, or histories, dealing with particular wars or eras of conflict. Treatises are listed by date of publication and histories by the wars they discuss. When a work covers several conflicts, as in the case of a general’s memoirs, it appears under “miscellany” by century. Since in many cases it was difficult to decide where to place a particular work, the reader is advised to consult the index of authors as well as the various sections of this Guide in order to locate all the works by a particular author. Some modern editions have been cited when it seemed relevant, but in general we have restricted ourselves to works written and published in the early modern era. We took 1789 as our cut-off, since the French Revolution heralded a new epoch. Why have we lavished this effort on the early modern period, particularly when military history is usually practiced with a present-minded orientation? The early modern era holds the answers to some of the most fundamental questions in history. I am reminded of those Renaissance scholars who collected and studied classical works in the firm conviction that they held great universal truths that could be unlocked through humanistic scholarship. It gave Italian libraries something of the air of excitement and discovery that today hangs about scientific laboratories. I see my own chosen field of study in much the same way as Renaissance humanists viewed Plato and Cicero. The examination of the three centuries between 1500 and 1789 can illuminate the absolutely fundamental relationship between war and history, in particular how military institutions shaped societies and states. A proper understanding of the military variable in early modern Europe may even spawn a new vision of history to compete with those that stress economics and class alone.